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Jack Fiddler
Jack Fiddler, also known as Zhauwuno-geezhigo-gaubow (from the Oji-Cree language, Oji-Cree: ''Zhaawano-giizhigo-gaabaw'' meaning "He who stands in the southern sky") and as Maisaninnine or Mesnawetheno (in Swampy Cree language, Swampy Cree meaning "Stylish man") (c. 1839-September 30, 1907), was an ''ogimaa'' (chief and shaman) of the Sucker Anishinaabe clan system, doodem among the Anishinaabe in what is now northwestern Ontario. His arrest in 1906 for the alleged murder of a wendigo and his suicide before trial marked the beginning of the imposition of Canada, Canadian law on the Sucker People. Until then, Fiddler's people had been among the last aboriginal peoples living in North America completely under their own law and custom. Background Zhauwuno-geezhigo-gaubow was born in the boreal forests of the upper Severn River (northern Ontario), Severn River near Sandy Lake, Ontario, Sandy Lake, Deer Lake, Ontario, Deer Lake, and North Spirit Lake, Ontario, North Spirit Lake in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land (french: Terre de Rupert), or Prince Rupert's Land (french: Terre du Prince Rupert, link=no), was a territory in British North America which comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin; this was further extended from Rupert's Land to the Pacific coast in December 1821. It was established to be a commercial monopoly by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), based at York Factory. The territory operated for 200 years from 1670 to 1870. Its namesake was Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who was a nephew of Charles I and the first governor of HBC. The areas formerly belonging to Rupert's Land lie mostly within what is today Canada, and included the whole of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, southern Alberta, southern Nunavut, and northern parts of Ontario and Quebec. Additionally, it also extended into areas that would eventually become part of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. The southern border west of Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains was the drainage divide between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
